Example sentences of "[being] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ London is a nice place to visit , but being from the North of England we were n't exactly overflowing with money . |
| 2 | Jack treats in three clinics six hundred people , six days a week — relying totally on voluntary help , his only income being from the Calcutta Rescue Fund , a small UK based charity . |
| 3 | p 787 ) we wrongly identified Don McPherson from the Department of Energy in the US as being from the British department of the same name . |
| 4 | ‘ They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job , being from the City , but I have n't found an instance where I would want to get rid of anyone . ’ |
| 5 | Bottles make up 51 per cent of the total , all but three being from Kent , the important exceptions being from the seventh-century rich graves of Asthall ( Oxfordshire ) and Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) . |
| 6 | Another headcrunching mixture of ‘ Jungle House ’ ( let's have another term , please : ai n't there enough jibes about black people being from the jungle in Nazis ' heads already ? ) from Rebel MC 's terrifyingly on-the-case label . |
| 7 | ‘ So do n't you worry about being from the wrong side of the tracks , Miss Milligan , ’ he reassured her . |
| 8 | The results will be referred to as being from the " Hull survey " as they become relevant . |
| 9 | Billeting allowances were available to cover the cost of hosting an evacuee ( for unaccompanied children , 10s 6d per week for the first child , 8s 6d each for subsequent children ) and billeting officers had powers of compulsion to utilise appropriate accommodation , but most , being from the locality themselves , preferred to ruffle as few feathers as possible — with the result that on arrival many evacuees found themselves in a scene ‘ reminiscent of a cross between an early Roman slave market and Selfridge 's bargain basement ’ , as one witness put it . |